Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: climate change and wildfires
Authors: | Armando González-Cabán |
Year: | 2013 |
Type: | General Technical Report |
Station: | Pacific Southwest Research Station |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2737/PSW-GTR-245 |
Source: | Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-245 (English). Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 405 p. |
Abstract
[Spanish version: Memorias del Cuarto Simposio Internacional Sobre Políticas, Planificación, y Economía de los Incendios Forestales: Cambio Climático e Incendios Forestales.]
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the symposium included climate change and wildland fires: reality or illusion?, theory and models for strategic fire planning, economic analysis and integrated wildland fire management, forest fires and sustainable forest management, public policies (national and international level) and the wildland fire management problem, hazardous fuels treatment, wildland fire use and fire suppression activities: reduction or contribution to green house gases emissions?, a poster session presenting examples of fire management plans and strategic fire resource allocation, and a final round table on climate change and mega fires discussing and exploring potential solutions. Representatives from international organizations with fire protection responsibilities in 18 countries presented and discussed their experiences on the same issues. Forty invited and contributed papers and 20 posters were presented at the symposium that described the issues and presented state-of-the-art techniques to address technical issues on fire economics, planning, and policy currently faced by land and fire managers.
Titles contained within Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: climate change and wildfires
- Climate change and wildfires
- SEILAF: Tactic optimization
- Managing the risks of risk management on large fires
- Simulation analysis of a wildfire suppression system
- Forecasting poductivity in forest fire suppression operations: A methodological approach based on suppression difficulty analysis and documented experience
- Hazardous fuel treatments, suppression cost impacts, and risk mitigation
- Economics of forest fire management: Spatial accounting of costs and benefits
- Economic analysis of prescribed burning for wildfire management in Western Australia
- Does personal experience affect choice-based preferences for wildfire protection programs?
- Economic information on the historical behavior of forest fires in the forest lands in the state of Parana, Brazil
- Forest fire impact on bird habitat in a mixed oak-pine forest in Puebla, Mexico
- Catastrophic fat tails and non-smooth damage functions-fire economics and climate change adaptation for public policy
- Methodology used in Cuba for estimating economic losses caused by forest fires
- VISUAL-SEVEIF, a tool for integrating fire behavior simulation and economic evaluation of the impact of Wildfires
- Fighting forest fires in Brazil
- Mega wildfire in the World Biosphere Reserve (UNESCO), Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia - Chile 2012: Work experience in extreme behavior conditions in the context of global warming
- Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of forest fires in northern Mexico
- Spatial allocation of market and nonmarket values in wildland fire management: A case study
- Shift in fire-ecosystems and weather changes
- Recreational use management and wildfires in Southern California: Using GIS and visual landscape simulation models for economic assessment
- Adaptive management of forest fires in periurban areas in the Federal District, Brazil: A case study from the Urubu Valley rural community
- Evaluation of the flammability of trees and shrubs used in the implementation of green barriers in southern Brazil
- A community in the wildland-urban interface
- Fuel load modeling from mensuration attributes in temperate forests in northern Mexico
- Methodological approach for assessing the economic impact of forest fires using MODIS remote sensing images
- Assessment of post-fire forest structural diversity using neighborhood parameter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico
- Land suitability for establishing rainwater harvesting systems for fighting wildfires
- Culture of fire and environmental education in wildfire-prone areas: current situation in Spain
- Fire risk in the road landscape patterns of the state of Paraná, Brazil - planning grants for the wildland-urban interface
- Advances in integrated fire management in central Mexico
- Management adaptation to fires in the wildland-urban risk areas in Spain
- Villaflores: Municipal forest fire management model
- Wildfire management policies in Algeria: present and future needs
- Forest fuel characterization using direct sampling in forest plantations